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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Geode vs. Kinetica vs. LeanXcale vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Kinetica

LeanXcale

Mireo

Initial release

2017

2002

2012

2015

2020

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1.1, February 2017

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through Apache Derby

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

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